Expert-Led Training: Proven Methods, Real Transformations

Are you familiar with dog sports but new to agility?  Feel out of place in a beginner’s class but not sure where to learn the basics for this sport?  Been in agility for awhile but feel like your foundation skills are lacking?  We have the class for you! 

This class will focus on foundation agility handling; the art of moving between the obstacles and around the course with safety and maximum efficiency!  We’ll start with the assumption that you know NOTHING about agility but a good deal about dogs and dog training; in this manner each student will be able to move forward at the pace that best suits their needs.  In this class, you won’t be in over your head and you won’t be bored either!

Using only three jumps, we’ll cover Front crosses, Rear crosses, Blind crosses, Serpentines, Threadles, Forward and Lateral Sends, Lead out Pushes, and many more! (see the syllabus for more details).  This course is open to all levels but will focus on these basics.  

If you’re not new to agility but want to strengthen your foundation on your trained dog, Loretta can help you too and will meet you where your skills need the most assistance.

Maximize your puppy’s confidence and resilience with Control Unleashed and ACE (Animal Centred Care) Free Work. I’ve raised many puppies of my own, but it is my most recent puppy who I raised with a CU and Free Work foundation and the results have been astonishing! She is confident, resilient, easy to train, emotionally healthy, and the best early relationship that I’ve had by the time she’s reached adolescence. Let me share this with you so that you can see the same results - I’ll teach to you all the things that I taught her and more!

Want to take your Nosework skills to the next level?

This class is about creating the AMAZING Container Dog...

If you compete in Rally, lateral movement is a requirement, but even if you just want to teach your dog a more solid understanding of heel, this skill is a good one to have. I use sidesteps all the time when I’m heeling, to help bring the dog closer to me, reduce crabbing, and straighten out crooked sits.

Play is about more than the toy or the game. It’s a shared experience, shaped by the relationship between dog and handler. The presence, timing, energy, and expectations of the handler influence how a dog experiences engagement, effort, and arousal. This workshop explores play through a relational lens, focusing on how connection, shared intent, and co-regulation support a dog’s ability to stay present and engaged.

Many handlers notice that engagement shifts depending on how involved they are, or that play feels easy one moment and strained the next. Rather than teaching specific games or techniques, this session invites participants to observe how their dog responds within the relationship itself. How does the dog change when the handler is more active, more still, more directive, or more responsive? How does connection support your dog, and when might it ask more than they’re ready to give? How does your dog respond to closeness, interaction, and attention? What does mutual engagement look like for different dogs, and how does it shift under excitement or stress?

Participants will learn how to recognize relational patterns in play, understand why some dogs are more socially driven than object-driven, and explore how small changes in interaction can support regulation, clarity, and trust. By the end of this workshop, handlers often find they feel more confident reading their dog’s responses and more intentional about how they show up in play. This workshop is designed for handlers who want to deepen their understanding of their dog, refine how they engage, and use engagement as a way to notice, adjust, and respond more intentionally.

Not all dogs are high drive. In fact, most dogs fall into the average- to lower-drive range, and it can be more challenging to motivate them. Handlers often assume they can’t increase a dog’s arousal—that the dog is simply “that way.” But that’s not necessarily true. In many cases, we can increase arousal; we just need to be creative.

We invest countless hours teaching behaviors and building chains that look beautiful in training—only to step into the ring and watch everything fall apart. What happened? Why does the dog suddenly struggle?

It takes some time to develop your eye, and hands to get an idea of how your performance dog's body is feeling.